Paper closure for glass vessels.



G W BEADLE PAPER CLOSURE FOR GLASS VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. I9I5. L flfififiu Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

v GEORGE w. BEADLE, or new YORK, N. Y.

PAPER CLOSURE FOR GLASS VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Mar. 27, rear.

Application filed April 8, 1915. Serial No. 20,090.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. BEADLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York,in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Closures for Glass Vessels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper closures formed by a spinning operation, and especially adapted for glass bottles or vessels containing milk, and has for its ob ect to provide a more eflicient closure for thls purpose than has heretofore been proposed.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel details of construction constituting the closure, and in the novel steps constituting the process of forming the closure, all as will be more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals designate like parts in all the views- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of a bottle provided with a paper cap adapted to be formed into a closure F i g. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating the closure after it is finished; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating a modified form of my invention;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, illustrating a still further modified form of closure.

1 indicates the neck of a glass bottle, or jar, such for example as is usually employed for containing milk, 2 the bulge or thickened portion of the mouth of said vessel, 3 the extreme upper edge-or pouring surface of the mouth, 4 the usual shoulder or seat with which said jars are provided, and 5 the outer shoulder formed at the junction of the member 2 with the neck 1.

In order to form my paper seal for glass vessels of the kind just described, I provide an inverted cup shaped paper cover 6, such as is disclosed in Fi 1, and which may be conveniently shaped in suitable dies, I place the said cover over the mouth of the vessel,

dicated, while rapidly rotating said spinners 7, and forcing said spinners inwardly toward the bottle neck 1, while gradually lowering the bottle, the said edge 9 is rolled up under the outer shoulder 5 into the form shown in the drawings.

By causing the sides 10 of the spinners to more or less closely approach the apron 10, as indicated in Fig. 2, a flat smooth vertical wall is produced, terminated by the holding roll 12, making a neat paper closure for bottles, which cannot be removed without rupturing and thereby showing the bottle has been opened.

In order to cause the paper particles of the comparatively long apron to readjust themselves, or to flow over each other, so to speak, as lead particles would do under sim ilar circumstances during the spinning operation, I preferably impregnate said paper with a solution of soap and water, or I may steam the same, or I may impregnate it with paraflin. In all cases the spinning action resets the particles and leaves the finished closure firm and smoothly fitting the bottle mouth.'

In the modified form of my invention illustrated in Fig. 3, the extreme top 13 of the closure is depressed down against the inner shoulder 4, by any suitable means not shown, during the spinning operation-,so as to form a tighter closure in the depressed member 18.

In the form shown in Fig. 4, before the spining operation, I secure to said top 13, the closing disk 14, as by means of the staple l5, and also provide the spacing member 16, so that said disk 14 rests upon the shoulder 4, and serves to make a liquid tight joint.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of the construction as well as the steps of forming the closure, without departing from the spirit of my invention, andtherefor'e I do not wish to be limited to the above disclosure except as may under said exterior shoulder, substantially be required by the claim. as described. 10

What I claim is: a In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

- The combination of a vessel having an in presence of two Witnesses.

1 interior shoulder and an exterior shoulder, 'GEORGE W. BEADLE.

and a paper cap provided with a disk fitting Witnesses:

said interior shoulder, and having an inte SAUL W. LEVY,

gral spun hollow holding member located SETH N. LEVY. 

